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On SorrowAuthor(s): Marianne BoruchSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Spring - Summer, 1993), p. 97Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20153411 .
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On Sorrow
The way certain people run through rain at rest stops, the quiet ones
or the quick shrieking ones,
is the way I want
to think about sadness: brave flash
and the weedy grass too shiny in such light,
say, the middle of September which is always at a slant, the kids
school-dogged, hitting
every puddle, that slow motion rush
from the car.
But it's the stranded ones there,
old guys with caps, a woman
with her hood up?I look at them
and hardly think at all.
They stand whistling for their genius dogs, dogs who half-fly through the dog walk zone. Two notes
to that whistling, or three.
Each has a rhythm I can't quite get.
They hunch down
into their nylon jackets, shoulders
already dark with rain.
I don't know
what it is?just what you do
if you have a dog, like it's raining all day, regardless.
Half the time, I sit a few minutes
in my car before
I do anything. One of them is always trying to light a cigarette in the rain. Match after soggy match
flung down. This is hope.
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